The most infamous example of human occupation began some 500 years ago when the leading European powers began invading and conquering the Americas. But it should be remembered that the history of humankind is full of conquest. It’s just that most attacks have happened on a much smaller scale.
Take the history of England:
-The Celts were overrun by the Romans.
-The Romans were overrun by the Germans (Anglo-Saxons).
-The Anglo-Saxons were overrun by the Vikings.
-The Vikings were overrun by the Norman French.
Each conquest was brutal to indigenous populations. The difference, of course, is that the invaders didn't have to travel half a planet to do their plundering and pillaging.
The only thing that sets Western cultures as more menacing is, perhaps, the lengths as to which they inflicted their oppression. However, no culture that exists on Earth has a spotless record in this regard, including the indigenous pre-Columbian cultures of the Western hemisphere.
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